Adam - Comments

auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping. - William Kapes

"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain) - Michael J. Carrasquillo

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

Consider me available for following. :-) - Eric D. Wilson

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

I agree, Twitter is much better this way. - Ryan W

I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media. - Evan Travers

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =) - SedonaTV

Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!) - Jesse Stay

Guess I might as well delete that overpriced twitter app I bought last week. - Shea from iPhone

Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-) - Tim

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam. - Steve

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter. - Christian Anderson

aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed. - Jess Sloss

I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still )) - massagin

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :) - Arlan Koizumi

I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now. - Murray Barton

You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter. - dthree

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr? - Martin Adamek

I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier. - Steven Cains

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards - Karma Martell

I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble. - Matthew Schrock

Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow. - David Stanley

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

Oh, so now you are only easy on FF. - James Watters

Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought... - Della Mauler

This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert. - Jeremiah Green

Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down... - James Watters

Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :) - Jordan Windebank

I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going? - Tom Sheppard

I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world. - Jodi

following the leader... - John Munro

You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;) - Brett Kelly

so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :) - Christian Anderson

Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine.... - lynda spangler

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - Joe

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with. - Darren Landrum

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in. - David Ziembicki

I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-) - Wolfgang G. Wettach

I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile??? - Gerard van Schip

Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9 - Keith - @tsudo

Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view. - Robert Scoble

come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx - Mark

Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff? - Mellissa

Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy. - Keith - @tsudo

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh. - (jeff)isageek

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too. - Rob Sellen :o)

1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting - polou/indigo_bow

Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman - Greg Clute from iPhone

You've piqued my curiosity. - Kathy

Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you! - Tobin Truog

This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-). - Mats Pettersson

I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com - CodeSamurai

butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D - Mark

Count me in! (Please??) - Ricky Maveety

lol @mark. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets. - Alex Knight

Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow. - Alex Knight

I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow. - Tim Hoeck

http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum. - Mark

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

Love the post, love the response. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!! - Raina Lee

I always feel like scoble's following me - Rodney J Woodruff from iPhone

Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew. - Robert Scoble

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..." - Wizetux

Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me... - Amit Nangare

Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks, - Steve de Mena

here is my comment ZOL - Grim Reaper

Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-) - Mitch Featherston

Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me! - Scott Booher

Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker - Noah Bloom

You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :) - Jeff Harbert

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks! - Audrey

Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that! - Pon

Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers. - Liza

Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute? - Mark Philpot

I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam. - Patricia F. Anderson

Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead. - Robert Scoble

Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF? - Keith Rowland

What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations? - John Brown

Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks! - Robert Scoble

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)? - Ronald

I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio. - Tim Maly

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows. - Bora Zivkovic

I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group. - Oscar M. Cantu from iPhone

Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow! - Tony "Frosty" Welch

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes. - Liza

@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again. - Steve Chou from fftogo

Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to. - Robert Scoble

my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods - Brian Appleby

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there. - Robert Scoble

really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services - Brian Appleby

How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly. - R1CC1

Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with. - David Chieng

I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-) - Steve Chou from fftogo

Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people. - Steve Chou from IM

How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script? - Shane

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen. - Tom Ribbens

My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;) - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon - Shane

Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter? - Alexei Zheglov

Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter. - Pilgrim Five

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha! - zʍıɔ

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait.... - James Macgill

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots - Sally Church

Tap, tap... is this thing on? - Yanik Falardeau

This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place. - Michael Fidler

Ah crap. You're already following me :) - Jason Nunnelley

I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right? - Travis Bedard

Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me? - Arleen Boyd

I hope you'll follow me... - Shane Tilton

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows? - Jamie Elgie

Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality? - Kevin Pruett

please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;) - chaz2b

I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me. - Lance M. Brown

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read. - Lance M. Brown

Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea. - Mark Edwards

Excellent! - Don Strickland

Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account. - Paul The Raven

Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever! - Kathy E Gill

I am just taking it slow. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis) - Keith Barrett

I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you! - John Pfaff

It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter. - Lance M. Brown

Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than... more... - Matthew Blaisdell

I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets. - Lance M. Brown

Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up. - One Degree Connected

I don't want to be left out please!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

All right, I'll bite :) - although I'll say that I did the mass-unfollow-thing months ago - long before it was cool. - Justin from Nambu

Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch. - Benjamin Taylor

Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online - Eric Schwartzman

blah. - imabonehead

Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-) - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

i'm in! - Criz

I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better? - Nick Lothian

I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot - Tamara

Follow....how about some promotion! - Bob DeMarco

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order. - Sriks7

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-) - Jonathan Callahan

Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... - Michele Lorito-Chase

Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody. - Corbett Barr

now i'll have to write something interesting... - Robert Littlejohn

me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject. - Marco

ok. so how will you filter the noise now - Kfir Pravda

Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?) - Peggy Dolane

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!) - Tia Singh, Life Coach

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-). - Hanna Wiszniewska

I would come up w/ a better vetting process. - Joe

why would you do that? - james

got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble) - James Hunter

"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-) - Luca Perugini from iPhone

I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you. - Paul Downing

@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter? - Bryan Zirkel

Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will). - Robert Scoble

@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt. - Patrick Mackaaij

If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself... - Grant Bierman

Let's give it a try. :0) - Toma Kazakov

I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people. - Sumanth Kolar

Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read. - Robert Scoble

I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him. - Shari Weiss

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockuàis from iPhone

Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it. - Robert Scoble

He he :) - Richard Holas

I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in... more... - Laurel Papworth

As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here. - Mark Evans

Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure! - Robert Scoble

you can put me on your boring list... - Charles Tanton

i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons - Dani Martínez

I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way. - Luke Kilpatrick

@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information. - Bryan Zirkel

I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful. - Michael Liss

I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Am I too late to comment and get followed? - Hichame Assi

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL - Thomas Ward

I'm definitely late to be followed. :D - Faraz Mullick

I don't get it but ok :) - Parvez Halim

LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons. - Flavio

Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) . - David Meredith

aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter - Allison

Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now. - George Hall (Australia)

Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of.. - Jaap Willem

Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk - Silver Hage

I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden. - Noah Gray

It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about. - Chris Nixon

I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle. - Ken Seto

Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however. - Mark It's 2000-Oh-1-Oh J

OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that.... - Bora Zivkovic

I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009... - Denise

Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck - JanLawrence

Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Hej hej! - Peter

The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :) - Adrian Scicluna

I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning. - Rob Williams

moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers - marc calamia

ok, you´re following me already :-) - Torsten Eckert

alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble... - Nilesh

All that commenting in the past counts for nothing? - Kevin Gamble

Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise... - Onur Kabadayi

I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me. - Patricia F. Anderson

I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me. - Bora Zivkovic

I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009... - Patricia F. Anderson

Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two) - Kay Proskin

Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure. - Marc Ostrick

I'm not sure your following me. - Amit Morson

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph? - Tech Introvert

What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can. - Aaron Schaub from iPod

Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done. - @katebuckjr

I only follow a few people and keep losing track so lord only knows how you managed to even begin to keep track of a conversation before friendfeed came along - Iain from BuddyFeed

Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway. - Sean Rasmussen

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers. - Tony Hollingsworth

'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists). - Andrew Spong

I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure. - ZuDfunck

um..... - Spencer

My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb - Andrew Spong

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while. - John Craft

You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese. - Diego Sana

So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about? - Bas

Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF - carece

@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care. - Patricia F. Anderson

What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow. - Patricia F. Anderson

Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff! - Pierce Presley

Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless - Richard Gallo

Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that. - Eric Williams

Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream. - Robby Parker

Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :) - Charlotte Barker

friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght... - Marco Castellani

Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow! - Ben Drury

Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post. - Gregg Le Blanc

Great ideas. I've been selective (though it fluctuates) about following people/accounts on Twitter since I joined about 2 years ago. I can't take too much noise. - Joe Lance from twhirl

I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for... more... - Timothy Federwitz

@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :) - JA Castillo

thanks - Keith

I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;) - Eric Williams

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better - Maarten den Braber

Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-) - Gee Ranasinha

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud. - Debra Ellis

Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better. - Chris Brogan

I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy. - Ron Hudson

I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday. - Daniel B. Honigman

why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me? - David Wescott

You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you? - walidmREALTOR

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David. - Eric Williams

Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend - Lee Odden

Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-) - Enikao

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning - Colin

@davidorban - David Orban

I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that - Tom

Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies - Lindsay Davies

ciao Robert! - alex

Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria. - RuthNH

DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-) - Lorenzo Strambi

Here I be - Robert

Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak. - ax0n

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

and now with twitter down, many will flock to here! - Mark V. Fusco

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert? - frank barry

That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes? - Chris Nadeau

I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month. - Mike Janicke

I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious. - Janet Barker-Evans

Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult. - Brenda Young

How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets. - Nadine Gilden

Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better. - abdellah

looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL - Shari Weiss

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality... more... - Andrew Spong

1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :) - Mario Gastaldi

Hi... do I get a follow? - Jason Mayoff

If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :) - Brady

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-) - Donna Tuttle

Be sure to come by Dallas when you swing through Texas! - Zaneology from Nambu

Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration. - Arleen Boyd

Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :) - Luis Sandoval

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there. - Alex Howard

I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it? - TheDiva Rockin

Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time. - Andrew Spong

Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-) - Dave Martin

Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips. - Vadim Lavrusik

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers> - Andrew Spong

Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt - Peter Murphy

I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;) - Eric Williams

With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :) - Chris Cree

Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!). - Paul Monaco

Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-) - David Finch

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter. - abdellah

@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert. - Dave Martin

what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience? - WarLord

Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary - WarLord

I thought you already followed me. lol - Duane-PreppyDude

Not sure if you do, but here I am... - Aron Michalski

I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter) - abdellah

I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow. - Jackson Miller

You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too! - Karthi

hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread - andy brudtkuhl

I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow! - Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me. - Jeff Hurt

If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way! - Dayngr

4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too. - Kelly Mitton

I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :) - Lori Reed

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-) - Tomy Thomson

I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-) - Tom Newman

Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-) - Jim Connolly

Hi Robert, greetings from germany. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

add me for your social media and the practice of law news! - Rex Gradeless

Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following." - Mark Denton

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say? - Jason

you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too - t i n y m

I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really... more... - James Schipper

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/ - Lori Laurent Smith

it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering... - Barak Hachamov

I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both! - Adria Richards

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours: - Donna

Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace. - Kami Huyse

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones. - Donna

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking. - Steffan Antonas

That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A. - Scott Pierce

Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human. - Robert Jones

This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for... more... - Karoli

hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:) - Tresha Thorsen

Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers? - Jeff Vreeland

It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert. - Jeremy Brooks

Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-) - Robert Morrison

Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P - Du Senyao Peter

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks! - Jonathan Blundell

When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter... - Jon Mountjoy

what like here? this is a comment :) - michelle harris

Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;) - Matthew Blaisdell

Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious! - 77Agency

Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :) - Veronica Sopher

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :) - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today. - Robert Scoble

Adam

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December 10, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

If you live in NYC, please come out on December 19th, Cutting Room. See you then! - Adam from Bookmarklet

Tamar Weinberg

After much harassment from friends, I'm finally attempting (again) to become a Mac convert. Does anyone have any suggested tools I *must* install on a new Mac?

September 22, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Webkit nightly build, VLC, and Adium. - Mona Nomura

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Windows - Alex Scoble

I have Adium. What's Webkit nightly build? - Tamar Weinberg

mate, you write for lifehacker & you're asking us?? - Zee.

http://perian.org/ I find that it makes Quicktime much better than even VLC. - Andrew

Whatever is FREE - Outsanity from fftogo

there's gotta be at least 3 "what to install on your new mac" posts - Zee.

Skitch. - Cyndy

VMWare - Outsanity from fftogo

Growl. - Phil G

It depends on what you are going to do. - Mathew™ one of a kind

have people just forgotten about Quicksilver? Still my most used app by a long way - Zee.

Windows Vista. Oh wait.... - Jay Cuthrell

Zee, would you rather just roll with what a single blog post says, or hear it from the people who use this stuff daily to do much of the same things you will need to do? :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

If you use Onenote, Evernote is one alternative. - Rodfather

There's this one program that's like Photoshop but I forgot the name. It's 50-60 bucks - Outsanity from fftogo

what do you plan to do with it? we could tell you about all kinds of crap, but will it work for you? - tiffany

Oh, Skitch, too. - Mona Nomura

Chris Pirillo actually has a blog post on free Mac shit - Outsanity from fftogo

I've seen it, Outsanity. It's got too much stuff. I'm looking for 2-3 recommendations per FFer ;) - Tamar Weinberg

I cover Windows, Zee. Cmon, you know better. :P - Tamar Weinberg

I'm not sure what I'm doing with it yet. Right now, it's a toy to see if I'll be a Mac convert. (I won it in a contest.) I'll probably take it with me to conferences for liveblogging. - Tamar Weinberg

Oh - what FTP app do you use? - Tamar Weinberg

What Mona N said. - Paul W. Swansen

Installing stuff won't make you a convert. You've got to hang in there for a bit to get used to some of the changed usage... but the first thing I'd install - Firefox - Brian Roy

Linux. Oh wait... :P - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Hellotxt.com web based. - Paul W. Swansen

@Rasheehn , have you seen the number of comments lifehacker posts gets...completely demolishes anything we could hand out here! :) - Zee.

I use Panic's Transmit http://panic.com - Adam Turetzky

I use Cyberduck for FTP & Coda for web stuff - Robert DeBord

@Tamar, no no :) I mean what your colleagues have written - Zee.

MS Bob, running on Parallels Desktop. - Josh Haley

The best solution is to get Chris Pirillo's phone #. You already know you can call me any time. We'll play Mac geek phone help. - Louis Gray

Zee, I've bookmarked several posts. I guess my question was more to the effect of "what software do you recommend that you use on a regular basis" versus software that we've blogged about that we've tried (but perhaps do not use consistently). - Tamar Weinberg

Are you looking for mostly free opensource toys or paid tools to do a specific job? Apps "I" use daily - Twitterific, NetNewsWire and Linkinus. - Adam Turetzky

You appear to write blogs, you should check out MarsEdit too. http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedi... - Adam Turetzky

Transmit, Adium, TextMate, Growl, Quicksilver, iTerm, MacPorts. But it depends on how you use a computer. I'd personally recommend not installing much of anything for a week or two and just learn about what is native to OS X. It's far more capable than a bare Windows install. - ·[▪_▪]·

If you forgive me pimping my blog here, I wrote a post on this topic a year ago http://seanreiser.com/MacSoft... - Bastard Operator From FF from twhirl

Cool. Self-promotion is fine -- as long as it gives me answers ;) - Tamar Weinberg

Oh... and if you need look at css edit (http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/) I need to update that list - Bastard Operator From FF from twhirl

Fugu for FTP/SSH. And if all you are doing is quickie image editing, Seashore does the job. Open source. You also want NeoOffice. And I vote to leave Growl OFF... I'm still trying to uninstall it. I have much hate for Growl. - Cyndy

@Cyndy all you have to do to remove a preference pane in OS X is control(right)-click on it's icon in System Preferences and a popup will appear under your cursor that says "remove xxxx pane" and that's it. Although I don't know why such hate for growl, it's one of the coolest notifiers. Especially with the iPhonesque but to each their own. :) http://macthemes2.net/forum... - Adam Turetzky

Skitch for image handling, Filezilla for FTP (if you're coming from Windows, you'll feel more comfortable with it). adium if you like IM, Twhirl for Twitter, Firefox for browsing....that should set you up. I'd recommend trying iWork as well instead of Office, nice package. - Duncan Riley

After a lifetime of Windows I recently switched to an 24 inch iMac. It's like when you were a kid and your mom bought the generic brand fruit loops with the retarded bird on the box because it was cheaper. Then one day she springs for the good stuff, and then there's no turning back. Adium is a great mac only IM client. Try that. - Seamus Condron

quicksilver...by far my most used app. - Tim Wright

Thanks all. :) - Tamar Weinberg

Lightroom? - Thomas Hawk

Perian is quite good. VLC can be buggy. Flip4mac if doing streaming. Affrus for PERL development and cocoamysql for db access. - Andrew Leyden

http://chris.pirillo.com/2007... - l0ckergn0me

Tofu - great for reading long articles - Adam

Allen Stern

Best Buy to Acquire Napster for $121 Million - http://www.centernetworks.com/best-bu...

September 15, 2008 from CenterNetworks - Comment - Like - Share

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OMG that is so overvalued. - Cyndy

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my initial thought was wondering if best buy thought this would make them "hip" - Allen Stern

That's just weird! Talk about getting lucky! - Sarah Perez from fftogo

does anyone use Napster anymore? - Adam

Cyndy, maybe the "brand" is worth $120M and the service... $1M. :-) - Louis Gray

$121 Million is a pittance for Best Buy to get even a toe-hold in Music on Demand. The legal bill alone to make your own service probably would cost 1/3 of that. - Steve Spalding

Steve Rubel

When was the last time you read a print newspaper? For me it's been months.

September 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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It's been years since I bought one. I snuck a look at one in the airplane, but that's the first time in months too. - Robert Scoble

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Week ago i bought one. But only because i was in it : ) There was an interview about http://snurl.com/3luvs And didn't read - Selim Yoruk

every sunday i read the local newspaper and enjoy it. also every morning that i'm in a hotel room i read my free copy of the wall street journal or USA Today - Jonathan Jesse

about 2 1/2 hours ago - Steve Lowe

We get three here at home: Wall St. Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle. It's a challenge to read them, I'm getting most updates via web. - Hutch Carpenter

at 9am this morning - Olivier

today, but I did not buy it ;-) - Luca Conti

every day, every breakfast (two or three) - Claudio Cicali ♋

the only time I ever read one is when visiting family or in a doctor's office. I never buy one myself and just read it because it is there. My local paper has everything online so nosense in buying it when I can just view one of the few local stories I may want to read for free. - Dean Clark

It's been years since I've sat down for any length of time to go through a paper from front to back. It used to be one of those things I really looked forward to doing too - Saturday morning, pot of coffee and a few hours with the paper. Now it seems less relevant to me. - Kevin Cearns

2 weeks ago, Financial Times. I always read FT on paper. Love that touch-and-feel of FT :) - Hayk H.

It's been years. - Chris Rossini

well, personally for me some print newspapers work (i.e. WSJ and one particular local print newspaper (in northshore, ma) - Susan (Kang) Nam

Every day. - Russellreno

Does the NYTimes on my Kindle count? If yes, every morning! - JMaultasch

Some 30 minutes ago. Huge amount of information presented in the net cannot replace the satisfaction of the smell of ink and the lovely breeze and sun of boshphorus in Istanbul :) - Oguzhan Eren

I would like to congratulate Oguzhan on his first comment on FriendFeed. welcome! - Kyle Lacy

We usually buy a sunday paper a couple or three times a year on the impetus that there's a big sale (like Black Friday). But the main reason we buy it is so that I have liner for my bird's cage for the next few months. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Whenever I'm in a hotel and they provide the local paper. I find local papers fascinating. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Yesterday. The Sunday NYT is a treasure and a joy to read. - Mark Interrante

Saturday...start of the college football season! Otherwise, very infrequently. - JA Castillo

I read my local paper probably 3X/week and whenever I'm looking to have a good time on the road I'll buy a NYT or WSJ. I love the newspaper. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

This morning. I don't get the paper. I read it at the gym. - geekazine

1988. My wife is allergic to newsprint. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Last saturday. It nice to READ what the talking heads are saying once a week. Makes a change from blogs. Theres pros and cons to both sources of info. - Roberto Bonini

I love reading a paper when I go out for breakfast. Nothing is quite as satisfying. Staring at your laptop seems anti-social whereas flipping through a paper allows for more interaction. But I still like books too. - Todd Hoff

I read the NYT and Philadelphia Inquirer daily. Can't find articles online like I do when flipping pages. And the crossword -- no way. - Frank Roche

Sunday's I get the paper for the coupons. - R. Ferguson

I read one almost daily. My question would be a little different: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Vinay | विनय

Yesterday. - Sprague D

This morning - I love reading our local paper (Charleston, WV), it's really quite uplifting. I did recently cancel my Kindle NY Times subscription, though! - Michael Connick

Every day: NYT, Washington Post. But by the time I read them, I've already read it on the net. - iSteeve

Years, unless a section is left behind on BART or a restaurant. - Louis Gray

A month. I read a bit at my parents house since they get the newspaper. But I think they mostly get it to do the crosswords. - Alex Scoble

i subscribe to the LA times, but by the time i read it, there's probably only about 10 articles that i haven't already seen online. - Admiral Anika

a looooong time. I keep thinking I'll subscribe to the WSJ but I know I won't read it. I spend most of my commute time in my g reader on my iPhone. - Morgan from fftogo

At least 10 years, and I used to read 5 newspapers a day (including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post). - Sean McBride

Almost 2 years. In fact, we forgot to buy one the day our baby was born like we have for our other 3 kids since it's just not a part of our lives any more. - Jesse Stay

Yesterday and every Sunday. NY Times. - Dave Martin

This Saturday, the great Independent, though not bought a paper before then for ages. But we in London get several free papers that are dotted around every tube and Greater London station so I pick up the odd one sometimes to read - Kol Tregaskes

I read one last winter out of curiosity. For the most part the answer could be 4-5 years? - Kevin Gamble

Today - Rex Hammock

I read the SJ Mercury from cover to cover yesterday. But honestly I only read the paper about once per week. Much easier to read news on the web in between tasks throughout the day. - Jeff P. Henderson

Only when I go to a hotel on business, or it's at a restaurant lobby. I bought maybe 4 in the last year. - Jeremiah Owyang

I read at least one newspaper every morning. I think it helps get away from the tunnel vision created by niche communities - Adam

Jeff Jarvis

Fucking Starbucks. What's so hard about keeping a pot of coffee full in a COFFEE STORE? I had 2 min. to get a cup. They wasted my time. Grr

August 6, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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2 whole minutes. No wonder they're closing stores! - jeneane sessum

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They insist on making you wait for them to make the full pot instead of offering you a free press coffee, or an americano. It's poor service. - Justin Whitaker

Are ya bein pissy just to say somethin pissy? - John McElhenney 2.0

My issue with Starbucks is the damage they are doing to the waste system. Whenever I order a douple espresso and say, "no lid" please, they say "We have to give you a lid". Then I say "I dont want one, its thick nasty PVC and Im just ganna throw in that trash can right there so please dont give me one", to which they reply "Im sorry, we HAVE to, here you go, have a nice day". And the... more... - Andrew Baron

Andrew, I think it's because of the McDonalds Coffee Lawsuit http://www.vanosteen.com/mcdonal... - AJ Batac

Andrew: I've never noticed the paper-cup-first thing. I'll have to pay attention to that. This kind of thing deserves a good mocking. - ha3rvey (sayin' nothin')

gee, two minutes. you sound like a spoiled brat - Cee Bee

And when they filled your cup, they did so with Starbucks coffee and all its pretentious, overpriced nastiness. - Dave Roth

Lets all get together and take 'em down right now, whattaya say!? - Andrew Baron

hey, what about Dunkin Donuts? At least you have 'em on the mainland! - Bill Sodeman

What? Starbucks has started serving coffee? I thought it was warm dishwater. :-) - Jeremy Brooks

Starbucks Coffee always has a burnt taste to it. - Henry DeBardeleben from twhirl

@Bill Sodeman DD coffee is awful, bitter, and only drinkable with copious amounts of sugar and cream. I prefer to make my own coffee, but when out, Starbucks is about all there is. Not many indie coffee houses near where I work. - Justin Whitaker

we have tim hortons in canada ,, always fresh , new pot always on , plus you dont have to say all those silly words ,,,, - johnpiercy

has anyone had coffee from the new clover machines (supposedly showing up in various starbucks)? http://www.wired.com/gadgets... - Sarah Perez

the problem I have with Starbucks is that what I want is a simple cup of coffee. I want it as big as it comes, and I don't need room for milk. I don't want a breakfast sandwich, I don't want a smoothie, I don't want a CD. Don't look at me like I am from another planet, you are a god-d*mn coffee shop. - Justin Whitaker

Hey all... just buy coffee beans and make your own coffee... it's better... cheaper... and better for the environment. Easy for me I guess... I work from home about 50% of the time. - Adrian Nadeau

actually, it sounds like you need to back off the coffee - Narendra

I smell "Dell Sucks" all over again. how long until we meet BrandonAtSbux via Twitter - Adam

Buy a Cuisinart grind 'n' brew, a pound a week of good beans, and a Stainless King 40oz Thermos. It's freedom, I tell you. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Coffee is for closers ;) - Dave Martin

Sarah Austin

Tumblr - http://www.tumblr.com/dashboa...

August 6, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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That is awesome! - BuBBy Oxide

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wow - Adam

Great photoshop skills! - Sarah Austin

finally--a way to monetize twitter! ;) - Amie Gillingham

Linked to it here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterpr... - Dennis Howlett from twhirl

Thanks for the link Dennis, I love that you linked to my friend feed. - Sarah Austin

hehe - Sarah Austin

That completely rocks. I want it. - Alan

Allen Stern

New CN is up - please have a look if you can and let me know if you spot any bugs - thank you! - http://www.centernetworks.com

August 5, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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nice design mos def an improvement - adolfo foronda

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looking good - sean percival

Looks really nice. ;) Allen, hope you don't mind, I took a stab if I was to design it using my style (simple/minimalist) -> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244... - AJ Batac

thanks everyone! interesting stab AJ! - Allen Stern

Firebug's Inspect Rocks :) - AJ Batac

Looks very good, is the feedburner url supposed to include the hyphen ? - Majento

it works with/without it (the hyphen) ;) - AJ Batac

looks nice - Marshall Kirkpatrick

looks and works great, thanks for covering the nyc tech scene - Rajiv Doshi

Looks wider. Good job Allen, congrats! - Orli Yakuel

Looking good! - Nir Ben Yona

Thanks - let me know if you find any bugs please - Allen Stern

Looks great Allen - I like the borders a lot. headers and tabs are great too. - Adam

I found a major bug: http://flickr.com/photos... - Orli Yakuel

Nice Allen ... now just keep those videos comin' - Charlie Anzman

orli you scared me - i will get you back in sf :) - Allen Stern

:-) - Orli Yakuel

great look! very news portal like - Anthony Farrior

Andrew Baron

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Rocketboom.com in all media.

August 5, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Wow. Congratulations! - Dawn M. Armfield

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Nice Andrew, Congratz! (If I were back in the city I'd weasel my way into your celebratory fiesta). - Carlos Ayala

Thanks!! Just a few more min and Ill have a link, brb. - Andrew Baron

Congrats on Sony Pictures Andrew and everyone at RB - Adam

Great! Congrats Andrew - Luca Conti

Mazal Tov! - Majento

Congratz on the acquisition. - Czar

Cool now finally I can get them on MiniDisk and DRM so I don't have to worry about making illegal copies. - John Cooper

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE NEWS: http://tinyurl.com/5uh4p9 - Andrew Baron

Congrats & cheers! - Dave Martin

Good job and good luck! - Otto R. Radke

CONGRATULATIONS Andrew, that's great!! - Susan Beebe

Scott Beale

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I hate direct messages, on Twitter & other services, if you want to contact me, email is always best

July 27, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I totally agree. - Robert Scoble

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I'm tired of email. Work inbox always full, "me too" responses that I don't need to see, etc. - MiniMage - HLtW

Such is the mantra of the internet popular folks. Us normal peons tend to manage our 10-20 direct messages a day fairly well - Bwana ☠

@Robert - that is quite the switch for you isn't it :) - Steven Hodson

I think what really gets my goat is the email notification of a direct message that I then have to log into a website to respond to. Why can't I just see and reply to the direct message via email? - Mark Trapp

Email is so 2nd millennium. Now, when my friend wants me, I have her clap twice. - david beckwith

I totally agree. I want to decide when to reply to a request. IMs make me look rude when not answered instantly. - Dan van Moll

Bwana, this has nothing to do with popularity, it has to do with efficiently of communication. Also your 10-20 DM's per day are way more than I ever receive (thankfully), so I think you have the popularity thing reversed. - Scott Beale

facebook still holds a use to those that don't have a twitter account. I like the mail interface there best - Noah David Simon

one or two is fine, but I dont even have my phone on all the time.. - Danny Bo'itanni

Here, here. I've had "please don't facebook-message me" on my facebook profile since i created it... - Sean Savage

Sean, good luck getting people to follow that. I've had the "no message" thing on my Facebook profile from the beginning, but most people just ignore it. - Scott Beale

Twitter DM goes to my email and I can hit back via Twitterberry. Facebook far more intrusive and disruptive. - Andrew Feinberg

Danny exactly, I get most of my DM's when I'm at my computer, so the mobile argument does not work. It's just one more system that I have to log into to reply, but worse, with Twitter my reply has to be 140 characters. 140 characters totally makes sense when posting to Twitter, but not for direct communication. - Scott Beale

I have Twitter DMs directed to my mobile - and don't get email notification - and generally respond with email me at ... too bad there isn't an autoresponder on twitter. @sean does that work? - Beth Kanter

My main problem is that Twitter DMs don't alert you in the UI. You just have to randomly notice the number go up on the right side. (I don't use SMS or email for them) - Jordan Hofker

I'm not worried either way - Kol Tregaskes

some of my email accounts are over twenty years old. I have to know you are sending it to see it. facebook helps me filter people who communicate. It would be nice to see someone make a friendfeed direct message system that worked like facebook's advanced threaded email. I don't like facebook any more then anyone else... but it has a purpose. - Noah David Simon

Agree! - Mitchell Tsai

Email is dead. Or dying, wasted in the gutter of history wallowing in it's own excrement, waiting to be put out of its misery - Russell Beattie

no snail mail is dead not e-mail - Victor from twhirl

Niether is dead. Until teleportation is reality, snail mail cannot be. Dead is dead. For the love of tech, the telegraph JUST died this year. - Michael W. May from twhirl

Email is still too useful to die. Mail2ff, posting to services like RTM and Ping.fm. It's still the glue that holds a lot of stuff together and allows us to remotely access some of the most popular Web 2.0 software. I also don't see the point of DM's within a specific service. If I haven't given you my IM or Email info...I probably didn't want to speak to you directly and in private :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Either way is fine by me. They all come directly to my phone. - Clint Ecker

the reply thing is actually turning out to be very annoying in Twhirl, simply because I can suppress them... so I see them each time I load the app. Ugh... - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Email is good, but if some sends me a DM on Twitter, it comes to my mobile directly. So, if you need a quick reply, it's better to DM me, but if you want a detailed or proper reply, email wins. I guess each has its own situational benefits. - Rajinder Singh

is it because direct message don't show up in your email? - George Lee

Thanks to Jason C., email is on the rise again. All the tech bloggers are moving backwards. - Bob Blunk

Can we Seesmic you? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

When Twitter IM worked (remember way back then?), I started to love DMs in lieu of emails. Now? I loathe them. - Chris Brogan

Not so, I love direct messages on twitter. I never read them. LOL J/king. I always read them. You should see my contact list!! :P - Paul

Scott, your comment about 140 character limits on DMs not being enough is one of the main problems. I mean, what's the point? If someone has a personal message, email is the best...Twitter is not the only stop on the internet. - Zach Underwood

Russell I'm still not buying the whole "email is dead" thing, especially when the communication is not time sensitive. So what alternative means of contact are you giving to people that you don't know (ie. on your website, etc.)? IM, SMS, phone number? No thanks, I'll stick with email. - Scott Beale

I prefer email. Comes straight to my phone and easy to reply. DMs are hard to reply to when I am mobile. - Jeremy Franklin

Jeremy, exactly, with my iPhone it's very easy to reply to someone via email. - Scott Beale

Like Rajinder, I think Twitter DM's are a great way to send a quick message or heads up. Similar to getting an SMS basically. But for serious communication or questions, email is the definite winner. You can be much more detailed and convey more (usually) important info that way. - Dave Schumaker

I just want to be contacted. DM, email, Facebook, a hug...whatever :) - Blake N. Cooper

I rely more on email than any social site to communicate, but that's me. Email is good for things that can wait a bit, DMs/IMs/SMS messages are good for immediate communication IF it is REALLY that important and in emergencies, I'd rather get a phone call. That's just me - Andy Glover

My personal preference is the singing telegram, but few people care enough to really take the time these days. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

I"m the opposite. If you DM on twitter during the day, I'll know about it almost immediately as I use SMS. If you email me, I'll usually get it relatively quickly, as I check my email every hour or so during the working day, and a few times outside of the working day too. It's the phone I dislike - Ian May

Regarding Facebook, I don't go into it for a few days at times. I treat it as a play time activity, and not for work use. - Ian May

I don't understand putting yourself out there on a public framework, and not expecting people to contract you via that public mechanism. Twitter and those types of services are not a one way street. I can tell the world something, but don't bother me with your thoughts about it, unless you use the pre-approved comment system. Also, please don't pester me with your DMs, but make sure you subscribe to me on Identi.ca! Yeah, that sounds really fair to me. *sarcasm* - Darrell Bell

Different tools for different needs: IM for instant message... "I'm in a mtg, can't get your call...is it important?". E-mail for more complete communication. Phone can be pretty useless, what with phone tag and voicemail tag. - Mahboud Zabetian

However, what I dislike about Twitter & DM is that it kills my enjoyment/use of Twitter. I want to know what people are up to, what they are thinking, what they want others to know about. What is not enjoyable/useful is seeing half of a semi-private conversation. Like msg today: "@so_and_so didn't know! is he okay?!" Huh? Who? What? Should I ask? Wazzup? I think DMs should be DMS and not half-duplex shouts into the ether... - Mahboud Zabetian

I use Twitter almost exclusively through email, via direct notifications and the daily FriendFeed summary email. My sister uses Twitter direct, and I am frustrated that I use email to reply. I check my girlfriend's twitter on the website sometimes when I'm curious :) - Richard Soderberg

I dont think you are the minority here. Emails for direct messages are the best - Rajat Tibrewal from twhirl

same here. completely agree - john conroy

for people who are inundated with email, it does cut through the clutter. it's a filter. - Adam

loren feldman

Tech Is Boring Me - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...

July 20, 2008 from 1938 Media - Comment - Like - Share

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Vincent: yep, and the percentage of those on the outside looking in is 99.999%. - Kevin Cearns

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Correctomundo Vincenzo - loren feldman

Gregory - im no Michael Moore, nor do I want to be. I just dont care enough. - loren feldman

I take great pride n that certain IT editors of Industry Standard and other still do not get it and can only debate with me by insulting everyone's intelligence - Fred Grott

I mentioned Julia Allison's name in conversation with someone [from the "outside"] who I consider to be very tuned in. They never heard of her. Sweet. As for your next step, Loren- go for it! - Donna Mugavero

did he just retire from tech blogging? - Jason Calacanis

True. It's often the same people talking about the same thing...like politics, which often is really boring too. - Dennis Bjørn Petersen from twhirl

Tell me abou it! Even the "superstars" are dull. It's just too much tech. - Todd Brunner from twhirl

Man, it is refreshing to hear an A-Lister actually admit that the tech echo chamber is way overblown. Don't get me wrong, I love tech and techie things, I live and work in tech in Silicon Valley, but there is more to the world than Tech. If you spend all of your time reading the tech blogs and hanging out on social media sites, you would think that the whole world revolves around tech and that nothing else exists or matters. I'm looking forward to what Loren has to say once he broadens his horizons. - Jeff P. Henderson

Good luck Loren. The beauty of tech is that it allows for and fosters all different types of conversation, in different formats. Use a megaphone, whisper, share your opinions using different styles in different mediums. Thanks for calling out the Twitterati on their memes and "meta" discussions. Use what you've learned to talk about what you love - don't just bring sand to the beach. - Adam

Jeremiah Owyang

Fast Company: 6 Jobs that will be extinct in 2016. Number Six? "BLOGGERS" quick no one tell @scobleizer http://www.fastcompany.com/multime... shhh! ;)

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Bloggers willl be just writers. They always were. It's a platform. - Francine Hardaway

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I humbly suggest that editors who force me to click on seven different pages to read an article SHOULD be extinct. - Mack D. Male

Blogging is already extinct. - Robert Scoble

He'll be retired by then. - Cem Catikkas

No more software engineers in 2016? Are these guys on crack? - Gavin

@Gavin, even more hilarious -- no auto mechanics in 8 years because cars "run on software". So why are people moaning about the price of gas? Stick a floppy in the tank! - Sprague D

1999 called, they want their horrible navigation back. FC really needs to improve the usability of their site. - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

concur with Devlin, awful navigation. Ironic though that FC is criticizing bloggers for making snarky comments when the commentary they are making is snarky itself - Duncan Riley

Blogging is a 'job'? Who knew... :) RT http://tinyurl.com/52ss4v - Rotkäpchen

Fitting that Scoble gets to captain the Titanic once again. He's probably seeing this on his IPhone at the helm... - Mark Forman

Rokapchen Blogging is only a job if you get paid...so I hear. ;) - Jeremiah Owyang

Would Scoble blog if on the Titantic? - Fred Grott

I thought blogs died 2 years ago or something. read that on a blog somewhere. - David Wescott

This is getting ridiculous. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

I think there's a difference btw blogs dying and having the title blogger. blogging is already integrated into so many different job functions. Who knows, in 2016 the term blogger could be extinct because it will be synonamous with reporter, or marketer, or CEO... - Adam

I blog for my a particular constituency of my company's market; just started doing it, someone had to - Shannon

There will always be jobs for people who author content, though the title "Blogger" may be subsumed into various roles. Truly professional bloggers (no, not really an oxymoron) may simply be thought of as writers, analysts or journalists, while the rest of us will remain the amateur pundits we are today. - Barry Graubart

I've never been paid for it, but plenty of paying jobs have come out of it. - Rick Grant

I think the future holds more jobs to become remote, then corporate, we're already seeing this, and it saves corporation tons of money, including the employee...example > employee travel w/ this gas situation - petes2cents.com

My blogging and social networking participation doesn't appear in my job description, yet it has absolutely contributed to the success of my business. I spend an hour a day on it, and the payback is more than any other hour of the day in terms of direct/indirect contact with my customers. - Ed Brill

I just got the VP at my company into blogging and he's hooked. He's getting feedback from customer's in the form of comments and is gaining leads from search results. I don't think blogging will die in eight years. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

Content creation will always exist and connecting with community never stops. I blog because I want to and its had big benefits on my visibility inside and outside of the company. - Alex

You can have blogging as a job? - Dave Peck

lol @ Britney - Shawn Farner from twhirl

even more hilarious -- no auto mechanics in 8 years because cars "run on software". So why are people moaning about the price of gas? Stick a floppy in the tank! -----I can't keep laughing! :P - Jia Liu

Marshall Kirkpatrick

What do u read on mobile when waiting for something? I read http://fftogo.com

July 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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fftogo and google reader. And Twitter. And mail. And the Bible. - Larry Huffman

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I read Gmail, Twitter, and livejournal. - Morton Fox

google.com/reader/i, m.twitter.com, friendfeed.com/i, or my Kindle. - Josh Bancroft

GReader and if I get that cleared brightkite. - Jon Erickson

FFTOGO, GMail, Slackr, G-Reader - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo

Google Reader, AP News site on the iPhone, FF, Twitter ... - Patrick Jordan

FFToGo, Google Reader, Blog Stats, Twitter, etc. - Louis Gray

fftogo, twitter, brightkite - Devin Anderson from fftogo

used to be m.twitter.com, lately been m.newsgator.com - Tim McGovern

Another question... do you guys ever download "fat" mobile apps or do you always prefer "m." sites? - Ben Hedrington

I send "on" to 40404 and hope I get something interesting. I can't wait to get a new phone. - Jordan Hofker

i read nytimes most emailed stories, and check twitterberry - i'd like to try Viigo as well for feeds. - Adam

My main reading material on mobile are mobipocket books, mobile forums, friendfeed using the YahooGo widget - LuluGirl896

Few better ways to kill time than Google Reader or FriendFeed on the iPhone - Dan Kaplan

google reader, twitter - rob zand

twitter, email, friendfeed, occasionally google reader, andrewsullivan - Robert Stribley

widsets is quite good. readbag - for all the content I haven't time for, bloglines feeds and that's it for reading. why not gaming? :) - Sasha Kovaliov from twhirl

G Reader through Viigo - Mrinal Desai

fftogo, mini techmeme, greader - Mohamed J

i like http://tiiny.com/, from there i can go everywhere mobile :) and ff to go is missing there - Ben Borges

I read a paperback. - Rubin Sfadj

twitter, gReader, "all the time". Micro media for micro breaks ! - PaulSweeney from twhirl

Jason Calacanis

Looks like i'm at 25% of my Twitter follower base after a two weeks of FFing - http://flickr.com/photos...

July 1, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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kind of cool how quickly folks have switched from one service to the other. says something about competition and lockin.. like it doesn't exist any more. - Jason Calacanis from Bookmarklet

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The iPhone interface the just released has made me want to be on FF more now. - Ralph Whitbeck

given that FriendFeed is a little more "work" than twitter, that kind of conversion rate is very impressive. - Robert Seidman

well, you can add me here Jason. i have not abandoned twitter. but FF does replace pownce & *some* facebook activity for sure. - Barbara K. Baker

Good stat - that's a question a lot of Twitter's power users have...how can I transfer my community over here? - Hutch Carpenter

Jason, who says they're all switching? I use both so don't count me as a switch. - Mike Doeff

Julian: He doesn't know, but I think we can probably guess that he's right. - Eric Florenzano

Julian, since his primary base of followers are on Twitter, I think it's fair to guess that the bulk of his FriendFeed followers were responding to his twitter broadcasts. While Jason should've probably said "following me on FriendFeed in ADDITION to following me on Twitter" (instead of switching) if he has 1/4th as many followers on here as there, it's still pretty impressive after 2 weeks. - Robert Seidman

ok, but on what grounds can you debunk the assumption that most of those followers came via Twitter? - Robert Seidman

Twitter is still something I use. All of my @ replies can be done through FriendFeed and, my own updates can be done via text or Twhirl now. The way I see it, FriendFeed streamlined Twitter. - Candace

Jason, I don't think you can really say that folks have switched from one service to another that quickly. Granted Twitter problems have prompted me to use FriendFeed a lot more. However, I haven't stopped using Twitter either and I don't plan to anytime soon. I think both services go hand in hand. - Chris Rodgers

There's no stopping you. It doesn't matter the medium! - Alex Hammer

Me either, just using both network while also trying to use Jaiku, which is a really good surprise - Jean-François Amadei from twhirl

only 10% in my case, and still only a fraction of my friends on Twitter are the same as the friends I have on Facebook - different crowds, different crowds. - Adam

Gabe Rivera

Should Techmeme include more product launches and personal blogging? See this thread and my comment: http://is.gd/HYc

June 28, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes, I think this will broaden the spectrum quite a bit. - Mark Krynsky

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If TechMeme is about memes, shouldn't it stay that way? How many new products or personal bloggers become legitimate memes. Very few, - Francine Hardaway from NoiseRiver

Definitely more start-ups. I do write about them for a living, so I'm biased, but we can get big co. news on NYT and CNN - Dan Kaplan

I like techmeme as it is, but I also like the idea of more personal blogs... perhaps a separate site (blogmeme)? - Adnan

I liked TechMeme because it was different than Google News. If I wanted a clone of Google News, I'd just read Google News. I always liked TechMeme because it covered the new media. Bloggers, etc. You've lost that and I've found it less and less relevant since then because of it. - Robert Scoble

I don't know that you want to clutter techmeme with this kind of stuff, but I'd love to see you branch out with another service. - Rick Turoczy

i'm still waiting for the techmeme backpage - MG Siegler

I don't know what it should include but YABAT (yet another bitchmeme about Twitter) is enough to put me off tech news for the weekend. - Cyndy

I'd like to see an entirely seperate Meme aggregator on product launches. Also, food and football, when you get around to it :) - Adam

Erin @queenofspain

I was just called a Social Media Expert. Oh God. I've Jumped the Shark.

July 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I dread the thought that someone would ever label me with that. That would mean it's time to move on! ;) - Lucretia Pruitt

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I think I need to label myself something totally different. Quick. Where is my brand manager! - Erin @queenofspain

Erin, you are a social expert who happens to primarily use new media. - Michael W. May from twhirl

no no no. no web strategist. no social media expert. no no no no no - Erin @queenofspain

Erin, you aren't a social media expert -- you are the Queen of Spain :-) - mathew ingram

Just because somebody calls you something, doesn't mean that you are that something. Plus anyone is only an expert to people that know less than them. - Will

ah yes Will, but it is all about perception, isn't it? - Erin @queenofspain

I've adopted the phrase "Social Media Devotee" - I'm devoted to it, but I have no desire to pretend expertise. - Lucretia Pruitt

At least you don't work at the Pizza Pizza - Brian Sullivan

Haha. We all have, don't worry. - Jim Kukral from twhirl

Don't you mean Nuked the Fridge? - Paul Whitaker

If you put that as a quote in your "about me" page, get someone to beat you silly. Otherwise, I would just let it go. You aren't to blame. - leigh himel

Perception is powerful. But you'll only jump the shark once you start believing that you're a Social Media Expert and start parading around to self-created fanfare about it. As long as it's only the perception of others, you're still safe. - Will

You know what *they* say: "once you start believing your press..." - Barbara K. Baker

that's okay Erin I was called a social media pundit when I guest posted at Mashable :) - Steven Hodson

social media pundit???!!! ROFL ok, that is pretty good. What's worse a political pundit or a social media pundit???? - Erin @queenofspain

@Erin I'm not sure but I think in either case a shower might be in order :) - Steven Hodson

try digital media guru - makes my skin crawl. anytime i hear the word guru in fact, now especially since the Mike Myers bomb. - Adam

Bret Taylor

The new FriendFeed office

June 24, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Sure, go ahead. Make us all jealous. - Louis Gray

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people no longer sit directly across from each other? - Zach Landes

Nice to see pool table maintained the box logo theme from yesterday :D - Mark Forman

Hot dog you guys are doing this the right way! - Tsega Dinka

Room to grow...nice. Congrats on the move, and good luck over there! - Jim Stanger

What is the square footage? - Caleb Elston

Where's my desk? ;) - xero

xero... Didn't you see it stacked against the far wall? It's the one right under the 63 other empty desks... - Ross Miller

Ok, I'm jalous. Now what? :) - directeur

way to go guys, onwards and upwards! good luck! you haven't worked at a real startup unless there is a foozball table or a pool table. looks like you are legit :) - Ivan Stegic

a malmo chair from ikea! the very same colour as mine! - Giovanni De Stefano

I like that office, I wish mine was that nice!! - Paul

I want a job ;-0~ - Chris Spencer

It seems you bought more tables and chairs to hire more hackers. I like how open your office is. - seman

We actually didn't buy any tables or chairs - they were left here by the last company. We have a table/chair graveyard in the back as a consequence :) - Bret Taylor

It looks exactly the same as the old office... - Jini

Niiice.. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Spacious and Neat.. I like! - Winston Teo

hey where's the ping pong table? - i like the *blue* pool table, matches blue FF logo colors! - Susan Beebe

Are you looking for a 44 year-old telecommuting intern by any chance? - Noah Carter

nice - Joshua Smith from twhirl

you know I was kinda expecting the dilbert like cubicles.... - BCK

what, no foosball? - Jeremy Toeman

i want air hockey! can anyone second this? Still, without walls it's gotta get pretty loud. No privacy... - Jacob Nahin

Jim, does this one have a massage room? - Anne Bouey

When will you be hosting "Early Adopter Weekend?" ;-) - Noah Carter

به این میگن آفیس2!!! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

and that's office 2.0!!! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

ok Air hockey with the Robotic arm :)- - Peter Dawson

Drool - Benjamin Golub

I spot a gnome desktop in the first picture. As I write this in twhirl on Adobe Air for Linux Alpha. - seanb from twhirl

Sweet, very sweet. Pool is great, but I like office table tennis better. - Phil G

pretty nice digs, much nicer than any where I have worked - Rajiv Doshi

blue felt. Oh man. That is so the way to go. Nice! - felix

Very nice! :) - TommaSorchiotti from twhirl

pretty nice... - Sarath

The red chair is still my favorite, but it looks like I have more seats to try out. - Amit Patel

On first thought - great Place! I like the open air about it... but on second thought I don't think I can work in such an open space. I just need my personal space. - Parth Awasthi

Open enough, I like it ;) - Chris Qie

Good Luck in the new space! - Charlie Anzman

no way! cool. - john conroy

Where's the beer fridge? - Joe Dawson

Well done. Drywall is so passe'. - MLx

Looks like a University College Student Union Building.... - David W

It's only the start for this great company!! - Alex Hammer

Looks like your short a few balls. - Steve C

What monitors do you guys use? - Bartek Ciszkowski

sweet, but I'd put those pool cues in a cue holder or they will bend stored leaning against a wall...causing bad shots. also sunlight on pool table will cause fading, but you probably will just get a new table eventually w/ all the success! :) - Pokai

sacrilege to say I think it looks pretty ugly? - Adam

Where is Yodo? - Sudha Jamthe

Jess Lee

Canned Bacon - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...

June 11, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Jess, you scare me with your bacon obsession - Tobias Boonstoppel

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Everybody who does _not_ have a bacon obsession scares me. :-) - Louis Gray

Have you tried it? - ⓞnor

saw a good Bacon Vodka recipe a few months ago - Jeff Quinton

Bacon chocolate is the way to go. - Steve Lynch from Alert Thingy

Hell, I keep kosher and I'm STILL obsessed with bacon. - Akiva Moskovitz

wow, this would go really well with some bacon salt: http://www.baconsalt.com/ - Adam

Hi, My name is Geoff, and...I have a bacon obsession. HI Geoff! - Geoff Schultz

I have all three varieties of bacon salt, and am a proud member of the Bacon of the Month club. http://www.gratefulpalate.com/... - Louis Gray

hmmmm bacon - Dave Peck

It's not just bacon - it's post apocalyptic bacon! It's nice to know our bacon needs will still be met in a nuclear wasteland :) - Jennifer Dittrich

I recently got my friend the bacon wallet (http://is.gd/vdY) for his bday, I wanted to get him the bacon tux (http://is.gd/vdZ) but my wife put her foot down. :) Who doesn't want a bacon tux?? - felix

If you guys love bacon, check this out..They say it makes EVERYTHING taste like real bacon... www.baconsalt.com - Anthony

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